Author Archive for Brenda Franco

ASUCI and the UC Irvine Student Health Center hosted a Health Insurance Forum last Wednesday at the Student Center, giving students information about the Student Health Center and the benefits they receive from the University Student Health Insurance Plan (USHIP). ASUCI President Nicole Hisatomi, a fourth-year political science and public health policy double major, , […]

Being someone who’s never been outside of the country, I knew I wanted to study abroad. I decided I would spend the next six months in New Zealand. When people hear New Zealand, their first thoughts are either of sheep or “The Lord of the Rings.” And although those things are true when you come […]

ASUCI partners up with administrators to field questions and present information on the budget system-wide and for UC Irvine. Students and faculty attended ASUCI’s Budget Forum last Tuesday to learn about the effects of Proposition 30, Governor Jerry Brown’s budget and how money is distributed among different areas of the university. ASUCI president Traci Ishigo […]

The new monogram has been suspended from use after just six months following a significant negative response. The University of California’s senior vice president for external relations Daniel M. Dooley announced on Dec. 14 that the use of the new UC logo would be suspended from further use. Jason Simon, the UC Director of […]

UCI’s creative writing publication hosts its publishing party, featuring readings from their fall quarter selection. The New Forum, UC Irvine’s undergraduate creative writing journal, held their “Issue Release Party” last Tuesday for their fall quarter compilation of short stories and poetry. The publication allows students to submit poems, short stories and creative non-fiction to be […]

Representatives of the Araya Institute speak at the UCI event on the need for conservation of the scarce resource in the Middle East. The Olive Tree Initiative in cooperation with the UCI Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, UC Irvine Environment Institute, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs and UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, held a conference on […]

The 2012-13 Dalai Lama Scholarship recipient explains her inspirations and approach as a student and world citizen. Soraya Azzawi, a fourth-year neurobiology and political science double-major, was recently awarded the 2012-13 UC Irvine XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship was established in 2004. It is funded by donations from private citizens who heard the […]

Professors ‘duel’ over the legitimacy of the two presidential candidates in the upcoming elections. California Governor Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown spoke at a rally in Bruin Plaza at UCLA last Tuesday, Oct. 16 in support of Proposition 30. About 200 UCLA students gathered around the stage as Gov. Brown joined members of Bruin Democrats, […]